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Æ Unit
| Issuer | Pushkalavati, City of |
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| Year | 201 BC - 101 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Lion walking to left within an incuse rectangular border, depicted in profile with the tail raised; a swastika symbol appears above the lion's back, and what appears to be a small Kharoshthi symbol or punch mark is visible in the lower left field. The design is executed in a bold, archaic style typical of early Indian civic coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pushkalavati — the "City of Lotuses," modern Charsadda in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — sat at the confluence of the Swat and Kabul rivers and served as the Achaemenid administrative capital of Gandhara before Alexander's forces besieged it for roughly a month in 327 BC. By the second century BC, the city operated under the loose authority of the Indo-Greek kingdom, issuing its own civic bronze alongside royal coinage. The MIG 4401/03 series belongs to that semi-autonomous municipal tradition, a relatively rare phenomenon on the northwest frontier.